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The Description of the Ainu and the Japanese by Gavriil Davydov (1807)
Russian Japanology Review. 2021. Vol. 4. No. 1. P. 95–116.
In 1802 upon the orders of the Russian-American Company ensign Davidov and lieutenant Khvostov were sent to deliver the food supplies to the Russian colonies in America. In 1804 the Company repeatedly ordered these two officers to make the voyage to America. Before their departure they met Rezanov, who arrived to Kamchatka after his unsuccessful mission to Japan, where he was supposed to establish the trade relations. Due to this failure and the attempt to save Russian colonies and expand the territory of the Russian Empire Rezanov decided to start trading with the local inhabitants of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. This study will examine the information about the Japanese, their settlements at Kuril Islands and local inhabitants of the Kuril Islands – Ainu. This research is based on the unique historical document “The Journal of the Voyage of an American Company Tender “Avos” in 1807, under the Command of Ensign Davidov” [Otdel Rukopisei RNB. Q.IV.430. Inv.6017. № 29]. This Journal gives a detailed description of the Japanese, the Ainu, their settlements and compares them to the Russian ones.
Данилочкина К. С., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 1 № 30 С. 537–546
The article examines the issue of naming the wooden writing tablets from the Roman fort Vindolanda (late 1st - first quarter of the 2nd century AD), which represent a unique corpus of epistolary and documentary sources for the history of Roman Britain. Since their discovery in the 1970s, over a thousand specimens have been found, ...
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Щавелев А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 6(164) Статья 3
The present study considers a suite of insignia recovered from the large burial mound C‐74 (Serg‐1900) within the Gnezdovo archaeological complex, dated to the 10th century. The interment was performed in situ according to the cremation‐in‐boat rite. The richness of the grave assemblage, notably the presence of several paired high‐status items (two sets of horse ...
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Романенко А. А., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 71–95
В статье представлен опыт анализа славянофильского понимания «народа» — одной из ключевых тем учения славянофилов и одного из важнейших понятий их политической доктрины. Славянофильство нами рассматривается в «узком» смысле слова, как идейное объединение А.С. Хомякова, И.В. Киреевского, Ю.Ф. Самарина, К.С. и И.С. Аксаковых, А.И. Кошелева и других, сформировавшееся в начале 1840-х гг.; анализ нами доводится ...
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Kirilov D., Диалог со временем 2026 № 96 С. 146–160
This article examines Irish November 5th sermons published between 1691 and 1711. These government-issued texts are considered as instruments for shaping cultural memory and symbolic authority. Through teleological narratives grounded in a substantive philosophy of history, preachers drew parallels between biblical stories and the situation of Protestants in Ireland, transforming sacred history into lessons and ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Abilova R., Вестник Томского государственного университета. История 2023 № 85 С. 141–148
The article is devoted to the photographs of Lubinskis, taken in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1928. The author reconstructs the context of the creation and existence of photographs. The research is based on digital photography collections of Spaarnestad Photo Foundation and Ullstein Bildarchiv, Kurt Lubinski`s travelogue book “This is our world” (1938), ...
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Young P. I., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2026 Т. 11 № 3 С. 85–106
In 1876, a group of Swedish ironworkers arrived at the Urals in order to construct modern Swedish blast furnaces and modernize the local metal production. On the Ural frontier, they encountered a multiethnic environment populated by Russians, Germans, and Bashkirs. The present article examines the relations between the Swedish colonists and the local population with ...
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Шистерова А. Д., Сибирские исторические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 213–231
The article analyzes the sources that were presented in the emissaries’ accounts of the first two embassies from the Muscovite kingdom to China. This analysis identifies key trends that influenced the languages of space and China description development. It emphasizes the uniqueness of each emissaries’ account and the distinctive methods ambassadors used for working with ...
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Grishina D., Soloviev A., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 2 С. 10–29
This publication analyzes the historical and geopolitical context of the formation and development of the concept of the “Russian threat” – a public narrative about the territorial ambitions of the Russian Empire that became widespread in Northeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the example of the concept’s origins and transformation ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
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Routledge, 2027.
This Handbook examines relations between Japan and Korea from 1850 to the present.
Analyzing almost 200 years of Japan and Korea relations uncovers a relationship that has been both congenial and confrontational. This Handbook examines these relations in this age of modernity by dividing it into four periods: precolonial relations (1850–1905); colonial rule (1905–1945); post-war/post-liberation (1945–1965); ...
Added: September 9, 2026
Рязанов П. А., Софронова Л. В., Диалог со временем 2026 № 94 С. 36–50
Among the Roman pontiffs who proclaimed crusades against the Turks, Pius II (1458-1464) stands out for having publicly declared his intention to go to war and backed it up with concrete actions. His death in Ancona, from where he was about to set sail for the East, can be perceived as a feat of faith ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Филянов Н. А., Вестник древней истории 2026 Т. 86 № 2 С. 388–408
Данная статья посвящена вопросу о возможном влиянии законопроекта плебейского трибуна 126 г. до н.э. М. Юния Пенна об изгнании перегринов из Рима на гракханскую политику в т.н. италийском вопросе, которая была представлена рогацией консула 125 г. до н.э. М. Фульвия Флакка о предоставлении союзникам (латинам) прав римского гражданства или права провокации (provocatio ad populum). По ...
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Voloshina S., Логос 2025 Т. 35 № 2 (165) С. 193–233
Статья посвящена исследованию маскарадов как социального и культурного феномена в эпоху правления Николая I. Автор рассматривает маскарады не только как развлекательные мероприятия, но и как сложные ритуалы, совмещающие властные сценарии, гендерные роли, социальные иерархии и индивидуальные характеры. Основное внимание уделяется трем типам маскарадов: придворным, аристократическим и публичным. Придворные маскарады (новогодние и июльские) служили инструментом демонстрации ...
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Voloshina S., СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2016.
Представленная книга - первый опыт "полной" биографии Николая Платоновича Огарёва, попытка объемного описания этой разносторонней, талантливой личности, его многочисленных и неоднозначных интересов и занятий, политических, поэтических, дружеских и финансовых связей с современниками (А. И. Герценом, М. А. Бакуниным, Н. А. Некрасовым и многими другими). Тесная связь биографии Н. П. Огарёва с современными ему социальными, политическими ...
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Voloshina S., М.: Издательский дом «Дело» РАНХиГС, 2022.
Книга посвящена взаимоотношениям власти и журналистики 1830–1855 гг. – времени правления Николая I и одновременно периода журналистской деятельности Андрея Александровича Краевского. Это годы профессионализации журналистики и литературы, попыток общественного мнения выразить себя в печати посредством завуалированных общественно-политических высказываний в условиях жесточайшей цензуры. Один из фокусов исследования в книге – профессиональная биография Краевского, талантливого редактора и предпринимателя, ...
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Klimov A., Russian Japanology Review 2025 Vol. 8 No. 1 P. 5–27
The manuscript Tales of the Northern Barbarians (Hokuidan, 「北夷談」) by Matsuda Denjūrō (松田伝十郎, 1769–1843) is a valuable source on the history of Russian-Japanese relations, the development of the northern territories inhabited by the Ainu conducted by the Japanese, relations between the Ainu and the Japanese, their barter trade. The written source consists of seven notebooks. ...
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Klimova O., Японские исследования 2025 № 4 С. 5–23
This article presents new sources on the history of the study of Sakhalin, which are stored in state archives and private collections of Japan and are listed in Nihon hokuhen kankei kyūki mokuroku 日本北辺関係旧記目録 (An Annotated Catalog of Japanese Man- uscripts Sources). The author describes materials from 1763 to the first half of the 19th ...
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Klimova O., Written Monuments of the Orient 2024 Vol. 10 No. 2(21) P. 55–81
This article examines the first volume of “Roshia Ibun” 魯西亜異聞 [Unusual Narrative about Russia] – a unique handwritten manuscript, on the pages of which the story of a guard bannin named Torizo is presented. He was one of the four Japanese guards who in 1806 was supposed to spend the winter at Sakhalin island in ...
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Klimova O., Японские исследования 2023 № 4 С. 53–64
This article, based on Japanese sources, discusses the question of how the Ainu language interpreters’ guild was formed, what functions translators performed, and how their status changed in the period from the 17th to the 18th centuries. During this time, Japan pursued the policy of self-isolation, and all contacts with the outside world were closely controlled by ...
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Klimova O., В кн.: Четыре века экспедиций в земли айнов.: СПб.: Арт-Экспресс, 2022. Гл. 7 С. 170–202.
В начале XIX в. к Сахалину и Курильским островам был отправлен ряд экспедиций: кругосветное плавание И. Ф. Крузенштерна в 1803–1806 гг., две экспедиции лейтенанта Н. А. Хвостова и мичмана Г. И. Давыдова в 1806–1807 гг. и плавание В. М. Головнина в 1811– 1813 гг. Все эти события, неразрывно связанные друг с другом, по- влияли не только на ход ...
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Klimova O., Written Monuments of the Orient 2023 Vol. 9 No. 2 (18) P. 57–79
This study introduces and examines the work of Sugita Genpaku (20.10.1733–01.06.1817) — Yasoudokugo 野叟獨語 [A monologue of an elderly rural man] — a valuable historical document that describes the reaction of the Japanese government to the expedition of Khvostov and Davidov to Sakhalin in 1806–1807. It was written at the beginning of the 19th c., the period which ...
Added: January 15, 2024
Shchepkin V., Японские исследования 2022 № 4 С. 38–55
Based on comparative study of published Russian and Japanese sources, the article describes
the history of the Russian settlement on the island of Urup in 1795–1805. First, it clarifies the goals of the
foundation of the settlement and the reasons for its liquidation. Founded at the initiative of the Siberian
merchant Grigorii Shelekhov, the Russian settlement played an ...
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Shchepkin V., СПб.: Арка, 2022.
This book presents several translations of Japanese manuscripts of the 18th-19th centuries about the Ainu, a people who have lived in Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. In the second half of the 19th century, the Ainu lands were divided between the Japanese and Russian Empires, and the ages-old culture and traditional way of life ...
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Bugaeva A., Nichols J., Bickel B., Linguistic Typology 2022 Vol. 26 No. 1 P. 43–88
Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable constructions using appositive nouns or classifiers. This pattern differs from the most common kind of alienable/inalienable distinction, which involves marking, usually affixal, on the possessum, and has only one class of alienables. The Japanese language isolate Ainu has possessive marking that is reminiscent of ...
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